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5 craziest crimes of the week

Newser Editors
7:30 a.m. MST December 27, 2013

New York Police Department officers police walk in front of a high-rise apartment building where they said a 35-year-old man and a 3-year-old child died after plummeting from the building in New York on Dec. 22, 2013.(Photo: Julie Walker, AP)

It may have been Christmas week, but that didn't make for an absence of crazy and tragic crimes:

1. Woman's DUI leads to ridiculous chain of DUIs: It would be comical if it weren't so pathetic: Police in Readington Township, N.J., have reported a most bizarre chain of events, beginning with a patrolman who pulled over a car that was swerving and smelled alcohol emanating from it.

3. Police: Teenager killed trying to enter her own house: "The initial call came in as a burglary-in-progress," a police spokesman said. The truth was far different, and the result much worse. The alleged burglar was a 14-year-old in Colorado who had reportedly been trying to sneak back into her house through a window.

5. Cops: Call girl shoots John who ran out on bill: Walking out on a bill isn't just bad manners; as one Florida man discovered recently, it's also dangerous. David Roberts tells police he made an appointment at a prostitute's home, but then slipped out while she was in the bathroom after doing the deed.

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